The song is about anything you want it to be. It could be about acid rain, but there is a double meaning. The sky is a metaphor for your reputation and living life carefree and how easily it can be tainted, polluted, by other individuals as well as yourself. You have to take care of it, be careful of your actions, who you share your secrets with....but is that really living? "Building towered foresight isn't anything at all"....if you do that then you aren't really living a genuine life. What is it up in the air for? You don't have to live a life of scrutiny if you hide. If it's there too long... exposed.... it will fall...maybe temporarily or permanently, or with certain people, and it sounds like your fault because "it's over, it's over me." You must deal with the repercussions raining back down on you....kind like tears...the song echoes failure pretty heavily as well....failing yourself and everyone else...and how we are all in this together. From the start the song contrasts different themes and sounds, feathers and iron are compared literally in the first verse, hitting the ground before the weight can "leave the air." It also starts out kind of like a ballad, and returns to that at times, lots of voices singing in the background strongly represent the theme of other people talking about your reputation. Will the sky, or whatever "it" is, fall or will it not? This could all be bullshit, of course, but I think it's possible. It just seems very alive, too complex and emotional to be just about acid rain.
The song is about anything you want it to be. It could be about acid rain, but there is a double meaning. The sky is a metaphor for your reputation and living life carefree and how easily it can be tainted, polluted, by other individuals as well as yourself. You have to take care of it, be careful of your actions, who you share your secrets with....but is that really living? "Building towered foresight isn't anything at all"....if you do that then you aren't really living a genuine life. What is it up in the air for? You don't have to live a life of scrutiny if you hide. If it's there too long... exposed.... it will fall...maybe temporarily or permanently, or with certain people, and it sounds like your fault because "it's over, it's over me." You must deal with the repercussions raining back down on you....kind like tears...the song echoes failure pretty heavily as well....failing yourself and everyone else...and how we are all in this together. From the start the song contrasts different themes and sounds, feathers and iron are compared literally in the first verse, hitting the ground before the weight can "leave the air." It also starts out kind of like a ballad, and returns to that at times, lots of voices singing in the background strongly represent the theme of other people talking about your reputation. Will the sky, or whatever "it" is, fall or will it not? This could all be bullshit, of course, but I think it's possible. It just seems very alive, too complex and emotional to be just about acid rain.
@PolishPrisoner Agree, meanings are infinite here. It's a great song like that, it leaves so much space to fill with meaning: A whole sky's worth.
@PolishPrisoner Agree, meanings are infinite here. It's a great song like that, it leaves so much space to fill with meaning: A whole sky's worth.